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Boeing Boing
Mar. 5th, 2008 12:28 pmDanny Westneat has a nice column in today's Seattle Times about the local outrage over Boeing's loss of the Air Force tanker contract to Aerobus. Danny is not feeling the rage himself, considering how Boeing planes are actually made:
The bottom line: Boeing planes used to be homegrown. Now? On the 787 Dreamliner, nothing's made here except the plane's butt — the tail fin. The rest comes from a few other states and a league of nations. Including those meddling French, whom Boeing hired to make the 787 doors.
Even the 767 — the plane at issue in this tanker contract — is multicultural. The fuselage is built in Japan, the tail in Italy, some other pieces in Great Britain. The parts are then shipped to Everett and put together, much as the French plan to do at a new plant in Alabama.
Well, we can still blame the fucking French for not building their assembly plant in Washington State! No doubt exploiting non-union labor.
The bottom line: Boeing planes used to be homegrown. Now? On the 787 Dreamliner, nothing's made here except the plane's butt — the tail fin. The rest comes from a few other states and a league of nations. Including those meddling French, whom Boeing hired to make the 787 doors.
Even the 767 — the plane at issue in this tanker contract — is multicultural. The fuselage is built in Japan, the tail in Italy, some other pieces in Great Britain. The parts are then shipped to Everett and put together, much as the French plan to do at a new plant in Alabama.
Well, we can still blame the fucking French for not building their assembly plant in Washington State! No doubt exploiting non-union labor.
